Two Democratic senators say the health care overhaul bill now going to the Senate floor for debate is a key to saving jobs and reducing the spiraling American budget deficit. Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan says health care cost reductions for employers will save 3.5 million jobs. Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania says the health care measure would save the country $800 billion over the coming 20 years. Republican senators aren't buying those arguments. Republican Sen... Read Full Story
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter and President Obama at an appearance. ( Gerald Martineau- TWP )
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If you think it’s outrageous that Navy SEALs who helped capture one of Iraq’s most wanted terrorists now face court-martial on charges they roughed him up, just wait. It may get worse. Tomorrow morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on a bill introduced by Arlen... Read Full Story
Sen. Arlen Specter faced more jeers and taunts during another town hall meeting that turned into a vocal debate about health care reform. More than 400 people packed into a Penn State University ballroom Wednesday morning. Opponents occasionally drowned out the Republican-turned-Democrat. Specter encountered a similar response at events Tuesday. Among the most common questions was whether the senator would sign up for a single-payer option if passed by Congress in health care legislation... Read Full Story
Political bedfellows don't get much stranger than Joe Sestak and Pat Toomey. Toomey is the conservative Republican seeking Sen. Arlen Specter's seat. The ex-congressman's popularity among the GOP faithful prompted Specter to bolt from the party in April. Sestak is the congressman who is defying influential Democratic Party leaders, including President Barack Obama, by challenging Specter in next May's primary. Together, the two men likely to be Specter's toughest opponents in his bid for a... Read Full Story
Jeers and taunts drowned out Democrats calling for a health care overhaul at town halls Tuesday, and one lawmaker said a swastika was spray-painted at his office as debate turned to noisy confrontation over President Barack Obama's plan. The president himself was treated more respectfully. The bitter sessions underscored the challenge for the administration as it tries to win over an increasingly skeptical public on the costly and far-reaching task of revamping the nation's health care... Read Full Story
Fox News Channel cut away from President Barack Obama's town hall meeting on health care reform Tuesday as he faced a far more polite crowd than has attended many meetings hosted by members of Congress recently. CNN and MSNBC carried the session in full. The loud public debates have been a tonic for cable news networks during normally quiet August. The audience for Fox's Bill O'Reilly last Thursday was a half-million more than on a typical evening this year, and he credited his network's... Read Full Story
Sen. Arlen Specter tells the AFL-CIO that he will support legislation to make it easier to form unions. Specter also predicts Congress will pass a compromise version of the bill this year that will be "totally satisfactory to labor." His position is a change from earlier this year, when he said the struggling economy made it a bad time to pass the bill. Since then, Specter has switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party. Specter is facing a strong primary challenge from Pennsylvania... Read Full Story
Representative Government: Some of the Democrats who want to hijack American health care are not exactly getting a warm welcome from voters back home. It's inspiring to watch our system in action. Congress tried to ram more than 1,000 pages of health care legislation down the country's throat last month, but was unable to vote on a bill before the House left for its August recess. Lawmakers might yet get away with passing what they are calling reform, but not before some members are verbally... Read Full Story
Sen. Arlen Specter ignited a new round of speculation about his health when he remarked that his eyes and nose were running as a side effect of chemotherapy. A spokeswoman quickly said Specter has not suffered a recurrence of cancer or undergone the treatment over a year. The 79-year-old senator, who switched earlier this year from Republican to Democrat and is up for what's expected to be a tough re-election fight, made the comment Tuesday during the Judiciary Committee's deliberations on... Read Full Story
By Vijay Prashad In 2004, a pall of gloom fell over American liberalism. George W. Bush was re-elected the United States’ President against all odds: a quagmire in Iraq and a faltering economy were not sufficient to bury the Republican Party. In fact, the opposite, as conservative strategists plotted for a permanent Republican majority. The Republican Whip, Congressman Tom DeLay, whose nickname was the Hammer, spoke for his Republican troops: “If 1994 was the year we stopped thinking like a... Read Full Story
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